I could do an entire gravel your ass thread on Chicago.

I'll start with closing all the emission test facilities within the city. Now I have to drive to ****ing Skokie to get the required emissions test. Something that used to take 20 minutes will now be a half day off work.

My day sucked as well Inmem.

Fired up the car to start my day. Realize the garage door went up about 3 inches and stopped. Hit the button a few more times. Down to bottom and back up to 3 inches.....Stop.

I get out of the car and look up. The entire end of the spring had snapped off and was separated a good few inches from the main spring. Awesome. Tried to lift the door up so I could get my car out. The metal guide wire on the right side of the door then became loose and I had to set the door down gently and now it was completely crooked and I thought it might fall on my car. This was after my wife told me I would be an idiot to try and lift that door up as things were "obviously" loose and it could fall on me.

Guy came out to fix it and had to replace spring and bearings in door.

Ah, one of the more pointlessly annoying aspects of our bloated bureaucracy. I live about a mile from the one in Naperville. Which is, once every two years, a blessing, but on Saturdays at the end of the month, a giant ****ing curse. Backs up traffic in every direction, good luck getting past it.

My advice - be in line when the one in Skokie opens on Saturday. And don't go at the end of the month.

I remember when mine broke - sounded like a shotgun blast. Scared the crap out of me.

It's always something right? And to top it off, I'm being sued for $235k for my apartment. I think some Bookers with a couple ice cubes will make me happy.

$235,000? Jesus, what did you do? Invite Joe Walsh over to redecorate?

More like Lisa Lefteye Lopez.

Steven Raichlen

Quicker AND better, eff you Jobu.

I'm going to have to google those names. :D

Wife tried making a PB&J.

Come to think of it we heard a loud something out front last night. It scared the shit out of the cat but we were near the back of the house with the doors open and didn't think too much of it. It was within 30 minutes of me getting home so that was likely it!

Dang dude. Did you have renter's insurance while living there?


And no on the ice. Fill an 8oz cocktail glass and keep that drink neat. You're gonna want that high 120 proof to kick your ass quick!

I was trying to tie in Chiefs and driving ability.

Mine happened when I hit the garage door button as I prepared to leave for work - so (a) I was in the garage when it happened, and (b) as I usually am in the morning, I was half asleep. Ugh.

Luckily I was able to work from home and got it fixed that day. And after that happened I get it checked every couple of years now.

An advertisement on TV about Hyundai's cars, I can not name the song that is based on, but my God: Here it goes like TulsaHyundaitulsahyundaitulsahyundaitulsatulsatulsa Hyundai...Hyundai..